On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 03:56, Steven P. Lilly wrote: > > > > > I just installed Slackware 8 with XFree86 4.1.0 and I've come across > > > > > some weirdness with glxgears. When I'm running a window manager > > > > > everything is fine but when I don't run a window manager I get a much higher >frame > > > > > rate but what I see is some garbage with a piece of a large red > > > > > gear. Is this a known problem? Has it been fixed if I download a newer >version of > > > > > DRI? If you need more info let me know. > > > > > > > > Which driver? Are you using the right kernel module (some drivers need > > > > at least one from Linux kernel 2.4.9 or later or one built from > > > > XFree86 source) ? > > > > > > > I'm using the kernel module from 2.4.10. Everything else is from the > > > Slackware 8.0 release. XFree86 4.1.0 and a Radeon AIW graphics card. > > > > Is there 2D weirdness as well w/o a window manager? I suspect this is > > the same problem I fixed in the r128 driver recently. Could you build > > yourself and try a patch? > > The 2D seems fine. Several 3D programs that I have written myself seem fine > too. I only see the problem in glxgears. I would try and build myself if > that would be helpfull but it would be a lot of work. I don't have a working > modem in linux.
No worries, I just tried the r128 driver from current CVS and the same happened. Not the problem I thought it was. > If I start and then shutdown twm while gears is running it > will start to work fine. Starting gears again after twm is shutdown results > in the weirdness again. If you want me to try something let me know. This > isn't a major problem. As I said everything else works fine. I'm just > curious. I don't want to spend hours trying to find a bug in one of my own > programs at some point in the future if the problem is with the driver. Everything else seems to work fine, which points at a glxgears bug? -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
